39 Crayons & Colors Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color. – Author unknown

I love crayons—especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell—and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors—so many colors. – Mary Wince

Yellow is the eldest daughter of light… – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

A mixture of light and heat… orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

[V]iolet… inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. – Jules Feiffer

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. – Claude Monet

Color affects us. Everyone should have a paintbox and a large box of crayons. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown. – Leonard Baskin (1922–2000)

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful. – A.S. Byatt

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. – John Ruskin (1819–1900), Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. – Paul Gauguin

Biographical sketch, in fugitive crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford – John Pinkerton, 1799

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. – Pablo Picasso

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. – Winston Churchill

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. – Pedro Calderón de la Barca

[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011

Pink is not just a color, it’s an attitude. – Author Unknown

Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy. – Terri Guillemets